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There's Gambas: https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html

Lazarus/FreePascal: https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Kivy: https://kivy.org/

Grails: https://grails.apache.org/

And any number of combinations using the web. I think they've just fallen off in popularity due to all the web interfaces, honestly.

Is it possible to help or encourage our local municipal services to have either an RSS or BlueSky feed? At this point, it's becoming apparent that putting all the information eggs in the twitter basket is/was a bad idea. This is a place where open source standards should shine.

I'm trying to understand the difference between this project and FreedomBox. I mean it's great to have options, but have any of them looked over that way? Heck, FreedomBox is even built into Debian now.

Sound very much like a Resource Based Economy. Back when discussion of the future and futurology was small and hopeful, that was one the well sought after goals. Now cynicism has destroyed that, and we're left to deal with the ashes.

Ignoring Gates, what do you suggest as solutions to the problem at hand?

Interesting work! There's NeuroMechFly (https://github.com/NeLy-EPFL/flygym/) available, you might try using that to simulate the fly body in real time as well.

Is there a way to download them all in one go?

Prove to me that you are conscious, without referring to the fact that you are a human and have common ground and experiences with other humans.

Is there a server for the PS2?

Why not python? It's pretty simple for kids to understand.

If the file is that important, it shouldn't be stored in the VM, but on some sort of more robust storage system.

Remarkable. If this material works and is flexible enough, we could someday see tape drives with hundreds of exabytes of capacity.

> In general, the idea of producing a body that lacks the brain but has everything else intact is very rational. Its doubtless creepiness may wane with time.

I'm old enough that I remember when artificial hearts and heart transplants were considered creepy. Now they're considered heroic and vital life-saving treatments.

Thanks for the blast from the past. SED led me to AWK, which led me to Perl, which lead me to Python. An interesting chain that brought me back to the interpreted languages like BASIC that I programmed in when I was a kid. Even though my formal training in college was Pascal and C.

Maybe. But it can also help people find their voice. And I'd rather have comments from someone knowledgeable but unrefined with some good guidance than their silence on that same topic.

Are there any attempts to start geo-engineering to fix this? I'm assuming there will be no attempt to stop dumping carbon into the atmosphere, can we at least do something to take it back out? Can we use solar or renewables to possibly do that at scale?

We build our own with data that we've collected ourselves ethically. Then we execute once the big guys are distracted.

Have you tried asking one of your peers who claims to get good results to run a test with you? Where you both try to create the same project, and share your results?

What I like about Forth is that it can be expressed at the lowest level of computation, and that it can be used to bridge that to the highest level of computation. For example, Forth only requires about 12 opcodes to run, which can be implemented in a few dozen chips. But now that you have that, since it's Turing-complete, you can now pull across a lisp or C compiler, and build a working operating system from there. Granted, that would be a lot of work, but it's relatively straightforward work, and that's always impressed me.

We could just leave them up there and add more stations nearby. It may even be possible to use tethering lines to travel from one to another.

Large planes are all fly by wire. In a commercial airplane, you're talking about moving maybe a quarter-ton of metal for the rudder alone, and against high wind speeds. There is no way to move those without powerful servo motors.

I didn't know about Pinta, and now I do. Thank you!

There is a range between less profit and no profit. As a shareholder, I'd rather have a functional society for all at the cost of a bit less profit, rather than being the richest in a world of ashes.

An Aeon ago in 1984, I wrote a perceptron on the Apple II. It was amazingly slow (20 minutes to complete a recognition pass), but what most impressed me at the time was that it did work. Since that time as a kid I always wondered just how far linear optimization techniques could take us. If I could just tell myself then what I know now...

If it tastes good and reduces harm to salmon, I'm in.

Is it possible to download this for offline use? Or to view the source code for it?

Man, we shared our knowledge via books long before the internet. And a lot of those AI models train off of thousands of books as a base before they try to incorporate less accurate knowledge from the wild internet. The cat was out of the bag on that long ago.

Is this model open source?

I can't contribute that much yet. I'm working on a set of real estate investments to hopefully start the chain within 5-6 years. One of the things that would help for now is to experiment with small projects and hopefully identify something(s) that could make a good long term investment engine.

I really wish there was a finance group for solarpunk stuff. It's a constant problem, and when I join any of the many groups online, no-one seems to acknowledge it. If there was some sort of fund that we could contribute to that handled the financing, and looked strictly for long term investments, I'm sure that it would make money, that could then be put back into more long-term solarpunk investments, for the good of all. I don't know how to set such a thing up, or I'd do it myself!